Mysterious as the wind, always with me.

Chapter 200 I Can't Fall Down Yet
"His Royal Highness! We did our best." Ivanov's voice was extremely heavy.

"I know, you have worked hard." The emperor turned his face completely, and Anastasia abandoned her princess status, and now she uniformly declares that she is the Holy Maiden of the Ice and Snow Sect.She looked at the tired big craftsman and knew that he and the boatmen had done their best.

In the distance, there is the blazing Port of Ostedding. Even the cold winter wind still cannot extinguish the fire that ignited the whole city.

On the pier, there were many figures, and the golden glow glowed from time to time under the firelight.This is the imperial imperial guards unabashedly declaring their identities to the Ice and Snow Cultists.

All the Ice and Snow Cultists who were too late to board the boat fell under the butcher's knives of the guards.

The only thing Ivanov and others can do is to string up the boats that can still float on the water one by one like candied haws and drag them away.

However, because the engine load of the tugboat was extremely high, the entire fleet sailed extremely slowly.

5 knots!
The speed of an old age sailing warship!

This makes the movement of the fleet look like a snail.

Looking at the fleet slowly leaving the port, the lights of each ship are swaying on the sea at night.A guard on the shore leaned over and asked his officer.

"Your Excellency, is it appropriate for us to let those Ice and Snow Cultists go like this?"

This scarface-like general of the imperial guards grinned cruelly: "Let those Ice and Snow Cultists who are behind the times be buried under the sea, won't you even save the effort of digging pits and burying the corpses? How to annihilate them is the task of the Imperial Navy." Son."

"understood."

Praetorians are like wolves, never eager to kill their prey on the spot.

They have enough patience, such as chasing a wounded prey for three days and three nights...

Just win!

Over there, the fleet of Ice and Snow Cultists stretched for more than ten nautical miles.From a distance, the ship lights are like blinking eyes.

In the night wind, the holy girl's eyes were bloodshot, and she didn't feel sleepy at all.

Natasha persuaded: "Your Highness, let's rest for a while. Unless the emperor dispatches extraordinary warships, there is no possibility of night battles in this era. We are very sure that the extraordinary warship [Aurora] was still thousands of miles away two days ago. The other end of the Outer Empire. She can't make it in such a short time."

Boris, who was bandaging his wound, sighed: "Tonight is not a problem, the problem is tomorrow morning. If the emperor had sent a warship to stop us, we would have almost no power to fight back."

Ivanov smiled wryly: "We only have [Vatutin] to fight."

Originally, Ostedding Port, a port with intermittent navigation, would not deploy too many warships, and the few destroyers were bombed by the emperor's hidden guards last night.

The huge explosion blew four of the five old-fashioned destroyers in half on the spot and sank in the port.The only remaining one has no mobility and can only be pulled behind the tugboat to serve as a mobile fort.

The saint said calmly: "When the time comes, first untie the [Vatutin] and try to wipe out the enemy army. If it sinks, the other ships will still be unable to escape. Only if we win the battle will we have a chance of survival. "

"Yes!" Ivanov bowed.

The saint sighed: "Oh! I took Lord Destiny's ship to fight. If I survived, I don't know what expression I should use to face this terrible friend."

If she didn't take care of the Ice and Snow Believers and just boarded the Vatutin and ran away, obviously there wouldn't be so many problems.

There are not so many ifs in the world.

After all, when faced with the choice of life and death, it is extremely difficult for the superior to make any decision.

Since the saint chose to take away those believers who were loyal to the goddess of ice and snow, now is the time for her to pay the bill.

This is the era of no radar!
The technology line of this world may not be able to point out the radar talent.

Under the premise of removing the extraordinary power, to find the enemy is to rely on the naked eye.

Fifteen minutes later, the screeching of the lookout shook the ship.

"Multiple smoke columns were found in the northeast!"

When the diesel turbines of the old-fashioned warship started, not only black smoke rose into the sky, but to the Ice and Snow Cultists, these high-temperature smoke columns were as dazzling as the sun in their extraordinary vision.

It is very unreasonable for a large number of ships to arrive in this kind of border area of ​​the empire. The only explanation is: the Bill Empire fleet has been waiting on this waterway for a long time.

Coming out of the port, heading north is the floating ice area. At this time of February, it is difficult to move forward without an icebreaker. Don’t even think about the burden brought by the saint.To the south is the reef area.

The Imperial Navy counts the Holy Maiden and her followers as dead.

The appearance of the Imperial Navy was simply the last straw that crushed the hearts of the Ice and Snow Goddess believers.

"No! Does the Ice and Snow Goddess really ignore us?"

"Goddess! Why don't you send God's punishment to punish the traitor who tore up the sacred covenant!"

"My God! Will the Vatutin save us?"

At this moment, the believers who were screaming for heaven and earth received a light signal from the flagship - the saint is with you, and I will use the flagship to attack the heretics.

Well, having said that, the signal is full of momentum!

However, when the tens of thousands of people on the slow tugboat watched the huge and lonely flagship increase its horsepower and meet the twenty pillars of smoke from the sky alone, many people shed tears.

How could an ordinary light cruiser with not necessarily outstanding performance be able to defeat the entire imperial squadron?
This kind of simple math problem can be calculated by everyone.

"Saint... the saint is trying to win us a chance with her own life!"

They howl!

they yell!

They pray!

But no matter how hard they struggled and how hoarsely they called out the name of the goddess they revered, they didn't get any response from the God Realm.

When the damn royal guards attacked them, the mocking words flooded the hearts of the Ice Guardian Knights again.

"Your goddess is about to fall!"

"Weak trash gods are not worthy to lead the great Bill Empire!"

Facing the cruel humiliation, the knights had no reason to refute.The Ice Goddess Cult has been in decline for centuries.

In this world where the gods are dancing, if the gods don't manifest themselves, there will be a lack of believers.

Without mortals being inducted into the kingdom of God, believers will lack motivation and donations will be reduced.

If it weren't for the Ice and Snow Goddess being the state religion of the Bill Empire, it might have been even worse.It is in this general environment where it is difficult to attract new believers that fewer and fewer nobles in the empire believe in the goddess of ice and snow, which in turn leads to a decrease in the number of guardian knights every year.

When the Gemini Goddess Cult of the Wright Empire next door has dozens of local knights and the four major conquest knights, it is really pitiful that the Ice and Snow Goddess only has such an integrated knights.

But now, when these mortal Ice and Snow Cultists are facing desperation, what is more terrifying than physical death is the collapse of their faith.

When the hearts of the people are scattered, it is not easy to carry.

cough!Or should I say, after this battle, if there are still living followers of the Ice and Snow Goddess...

"Woo--" a long siren sounded on the Vatutin.

Watching this giant steel ship come out more and more tragically towards the increasingly clear shadows of the ship on the distant horizon, the believers' emotions began to collapse.

On the other side, on the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, Lieutenant General Grigorovich saw the prominent Vatutin through the vision of an Extraordinary Sea Eagle, and he couldn't help grunting in dissatisfaction.

"How does the intelligence officer work? That princess who doesn't know how to praise actually has a brand new cruiser in her hands?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a mysterious man behind him wearing a golden half-mask covering the upper half of his face sneered: "Is it a problem for Your Excellency to have one more ordinary warship?"

"Praise the emperor!" The lieutenant general smiled and turned his head: "The four ships [Izmail], [Borodino], [Kinburn] and [Navarine] made a feint attack posture, pretending to circle around Use the [Vatutin] to attack the civilian ships behind and see how the saint reacts."

"Yes!"

The division of the imperial navy made Anastasia's heart feel like falling into a freezing hell.

But there was nothing she could do about it!
If she gets entangled in those feint ships, she will lose even less than 1% chance of winning.

With a trembling voice, Her Royal Highness ordered: "Attack other warships along the way, but we have only one target, the enemy flagship [Peter the Great]!"

This is a warship named after his father's imperial number.

She couldn't afford to lose, but the admiral on the opposite side couldn't afford to lose either.Once the "Peter the Great" sank, even if they wiped out the Ice and Snow Goddess believers, they would still go to the gallows collectively.

Lieutenant General Grigorovich saw the accelerating Vatutin, and immediately realized the decision made by the saint.

"What courage! Your Royal Highness! If you are not the enemy that His Majesty must eliminate, I admire you in terms of courage alone." He smiled happily, and at the same time gave the bombardment command.

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of artillery resounding through the sky sounded from the ships on both sides at the same time.

I don't know how many shells traversed the sky and shot towards the opponent's ship.

On the observation deck at a height of 40 meters, the watchman can see enemy ships 22 kilometers away through the telescope.

For the artillery of this era, the range of 10 kilometers is already the limit.

Whether this kind of mutual shooting at a distance of 10 kilometers can hit or not depends more on metaphysics.

When the shells landed within 500 meters of the ship, causing jets of water to rise up into the sky, the Holy Maiden Anastasia was a little surprised to find that she didn't seem too scared of the result of dying in battle.

That feeling was like after going through many ordeals, after the weak and illusory in my heart, the last hope for the Ice and Snow Goddess was officially shattered, but my desperate heart became more indifferent.

"If disillusionment is my only ending, then I choose...to accept it." In her heart, the eldest princess said to herself.

But at this moment, she can't fall down.

She has not only lived for herself, behind her, there are tens of thousands of believers who rely on and rely on her, which is the source of her strength.

Her gaze hardened!

(End of this chapter)